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by angrygoat 3y ago
+1 on doing a first aid course. It's a day or two, it's interesting, and it's a good thing that human beings should be prepared and willing to help one another. I'm 41 and I've now twice encountered a situation wher
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by angrygoat 3y ago
I'm an Anglican (Episcopalian) deacon – your question is perhaps slightly problematic, in that "religion" is extremely difficult to define. Westerners (confessional Christians or not) tend to have in mind something that looks
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by angrygoat 3y ago
We had a few ex-mining company workstations at the computer club at university – I remember that the metal security bar through the Indigo workstation could be pulled out and waved at one's fellow users, usually in good fun. :) They we
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by angrygoat 4y ago
This reminds me of the letter that Charles Darwin wrote from Albany, Western Australia, when he briefly visited in 1836: "We staid (sic) there eight days and I do not remember since leaving England having passed a more dull, uninterest
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by angrygoat 4y ago
I live in Perth – you don't have to go that far (maybe a hundred km) to get a good sky, but I rarely do. I was out at New Norcia recently, and it happened to be a very clear night. I almost couldn't believe what I was seeing – the
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by angrygoat 4y ago
Circa 1999 one of the popular machines in my uni's computer club was the BeBox - it had a solid web browser, it was fast, it had the cool CPU usage indicator on the front, and it was *nix enough to compile most stuff or to work on assi
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by angrygoat 4y ago
Thanks for this tool. One piece of feedback – it's not great that the `test_id` is a small sequentially generated integer; it's trivial to iterate across all of the URLs that have been tested.
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How to get started with OCaml in 2022(tech.ahrefs.com)
2 points by angrygoat 4y ago|0 comments
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by angrygoat 4y ago
I've found ocrmypdf to be excellent: the only issue I've had is with PDFs with differing page sizes; it seems to scale everything up to the size of the largest page, which can be a bit of a pain.
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QuickJS Running in WebAssembly(github.com)
93 points by angrygoat 4y ago|26 comments
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by angrygoat 4y ago
Here's the administrator's filing with the Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware: https://d1e00ek4ebabms.cloudfront.net/production/uploaded-fi... Page 22 is exciting: "The Debtors did not have th
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by angrygoat 4y ago
If this becomes available in Australia, it would be a decent reason for me to upgrade my phone. I quite like bushwalking, and I quite like the idea of more adventurous walks – and knowing I can text for help would be a real plus.
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by angrygoat 4y ago
I've always been interested in history, and the History 5 podcasts from UC Berkeley really took my interest to the next level. There are a number of versions; the original platform is long gone, but luckily archive.org has it. A few fa
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Nerd Fonts(nerdfonts.com)
4 points by angrygoat 4y ago|0 comments
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Hikari – A Minimal Wayland Compositor(hikari.acmelabs.space)
1 points by angrygoat 4y ago|0 comments
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by angrygoat 4y ago
Hah, those were the days. I remember using finger in the late 90s/early 00s to figure out whether people were at the computer club before I walked across campus for lunch :)
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by angrygoat 4y ago
Acer laptops were super common back then at universities, at least here in Australia. I think they'd hit a sweet spot - they were affordable enough for students, and would probably not fall apart over the course of a three or four year
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by angrygoat 4y ago
Yeah, this – it's easy to forget that infrastructure code (Linux, libc, openssl, ...) really is the tip of the iceberg. Industrial codebases are often at least an order of magnitude bigger; really, that shouldn't surprise us: ther
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Building a WebAssembly Runtime for BBC iPlayer (2021)(medium.com)
1 points by angrygoat 4y ago|0 comments
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by angrygoat 4y ago
It's quite a few years ago now, but the thing I remember was pain in the moment, and then very sore muscles in my hand and arm, presumably because the muscles were convulsed by the shock. I was sore for a couple of days and then I was
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by angrygoat 4y ago
I've been shocked by one of these – I was setting up some computers, asked for an extension cord, got handed a male-to-male cord. Didn't notice until I plugged one end in, and grabbed the other while fishing around for it while lo
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by angrygoat 4y ago
As a West Australian, all I can say as a representative of the rest of the country is: we know.
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HexoSynth Modular Synthesizer in Rust – Devlog #11(m8geil.de)
2 points by angrygoat 4y ago|0 comments
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by angrygoat 4y ago
This is very cool, although I was just playing around with it and my cat cast me a filthy look and raced away at high speed. Your warning about playing the sounds is well given! :)
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Python multi-level break and continue(lwn.net)
42 points by angrygoat 4y ago|89 comments
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by angrygoat 4y ago
There are other languages without a 'no' – Irish Gaelic is an example, where you respond in the negative by repeating back the verb in question, but negated. The article explains that Kusanda doesn't do this: > Alongside i
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Highlights of Rust 1.63.0(twitter.com)
1 points by angrygoat 4y ago|0 comments
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by angrygoat 4y ago
The first PC I bought myself was a P2-400 with 128MB of RAM and an 11GB hard drive. I ran stock Debian, dual-boot W2K, and I had (just) enough hard drive for a full Debian i386 mirror (with source) so that I didn't need to download pac
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by angrygoat 4y ago
There's an explanation here: https://www.bbcmicrobot.com/owlet-test2.html > BBC Micro bot runs your tweet on an 8-bit computer emulator. Below is output from 1000 programs that different users submitted to the bot.
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by angrygoat 4y ago
I used to play this with my friends in the high school library, circa 1994-ish. The multiplayer worked pretty well, letting us share one computer and each take turns to play. A fond memory!

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